Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Second Class Destroyer of P15B Class ‘Mormugao’ delivered to Indian Navy
Mumbai : 24 November 2022
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited  has delivered Second Ship of Project 15B Class Guided Missile Destroyer i.e. Yard 12705  to the Indian Navy. The Acceptance Document was signed by VAdm Narayan Prasad, AVSM, NM, IN  Chairman & Managing Director, MDL and RAdm C Raghuram, VSM, CSO  at MDL in the presence of Commanding Officer  Capt Kapit Bhatia, MDL Directors and Navy personnel today.
The ship is constructed using Indigenous Steel DMR 249A and is amongst the largest Destroyers constructed in India, with an overall length of 164 meters and a displacement of over 7500 tons. The ship is a potent platform capable of undertaking a variety of tasks and missions, spanning the full spectrum of maritime warfare. It is armed with supersonic Surface-to-Surface ‘Brahmos’ missiles and ‘Barak-8’ Long Range Surface to Air Missiles. Towards undersea warfare capability the Destroyer is fitted with indigenously developed anti-submarine weapons and sensors, prominently the Hull mounted Sonar Humsa NG, Heavy weight Torpedo Tube Launchers and ASW Rocket Launchers.
Significantly more versatile than the previous classes of Destroyer and Frigates in Naval inventory, the Mormugao’s all round capability against enemy submarines, surface warships, anti-ship missiles and fighter aircraft will enable it to operate independently without supporting vessels, and also to function as the flagship of a Naval task force.
The ship can accommodate a crew of 312 persons, has an endurance of 4000 Nautical Mile and can carry out a typical 42 days mission with extended mission time in out of area operation. The ship is equipped with two helicopters onboard to further extend its reach. The ship is propelled by a powerful Combined Gas and Gas Propulsion Plant , consisting of four reversible Gas Turbines, which enables her to achieve a speed of over 30 knots . The Ship Boasts of a very high level of automation with sophisticated digital networks such as Gigabyte Ethernet based Ship Data Network , Combat Management System , Automatic Power Management System  and Integrated Platform Management System .
The indigenous content in P15B Class Destroyers is 72% which is a notch above their predecessors P15A  and P15  Class Destroyers, reaffirming the Government’s focus in ‘Make in India’ Programme.
The first Ship of P15B  was commissioned last year on 21 Nov 2021. The third ship  was launched on 20 Apr 2019 and is at an advance stage of outfitting the fourth ship  was launched on 17 May 2022.
MDL has always been at the forefront of the nation’s progressive indigenous warship and submarine building programme. With the construction of the Leander and Godavari class Frigates, Khukri class Corvettes, Missile Boats, Delhi and Kolkata class Destroyers, Shivalik class Stealth Frigates, the SSK submarines and four in number Scorpene submarine under its belt, the history of modern day MDL almost maps the history of indigenous warship and submarine building in India there by deservedly earning the soubriquet ‘Warship and Submarine Builders to the Nation’.
Source: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
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